Auto hire and financial institutions end discounts for National Rifle Association members

If gun control advocates want to effect real change in the way politicians view the politics of guns, they need to show there are political consequences on both sides of this debate - not just the NRA's. "We have discontinued our existing relationship with the NRA", CEO Chad Laurans said in a statement. Chubb Ltd., said the decision to do so was made several months ago, though.

The NRA credit cards are part of a larger business in which the bank issues cards branded with organizations' logos, such as the sporting-goods store Scheels and the Best Western hotel chain.

Under the hashtag #BoycottNRA, social media is now calling out companies that offer special benefits to NRA members. Lockton did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Insurance giants MetLife, rental vehicle company Hertz and security software company Symantec, maker of the Norton antvirus product, said on Friday over Twitter that they would stop offering discounts to members of the firearms group.

Before the hour-long meeting, he said he was keen to discuss violence in movies, reopening mental health institutions and raising the age limit on buying guns to 21. Its fund clients invest in indexes that might contain companies like Ruger.

The NRA's appearance comes the morning after a tense town hall-style broadcast on CNN in which student survivors of the Parkland massacre issued withering criticism of NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch, and Florida Republican senator, Marco Rubio.

Some companies wanted their customers to know ties to the NRA were severed before the Florida shooting.